Showtime
Title | Showtime PDF eBook |
Author | Jeff Pearlman |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 563 |
Release | 2014-03-04 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0698148614 |
The New York Times bestselling author of Sweetness delivers the first all-encompassing account of the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers, one of professional sports’ most-revered—and dominant—dynasties. The Los Angeles Lakers of the 1980s personified the flamboyance and excess of the decade over which they reigned. Beginning with the arrival of Earvin “Magic” Johnson as the number-one overall pick of the 1979 draft, the Lakers played basketball with gusto and pizzazz, unleashing their famed “Showtime” run-and-gun style on a league unprepared for their speed and ferocity—and became the most captivating show in sports and, arguably, in all-around American entertainment. The Lakers’ roster overflowed with exciting all-star-caliber players, including center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and they were led by the incomparable Pat Riley, known for his slicked-back hair, his Armani suits, and his arrogant strut. Hollywood’s biggest celebrities lined the court and gorgeous women flocked to the arena. Best of all, the team was a winner. Between 1980 and 1991, the Lakers played in an unmatched nine NBA championship series, capturing five of them. Bestselling sportswriter Jeff Pearlman draws from almost three hundred interviews to take the first full measure of the Lakers’ epic Showtime era. A dazzling account of one of America’s greatest sports sagas, Showtime is packed with indelible characters, vicious rivalries, and jaw-dropping, behind-the-scenes stories of the players’ decadent Hollywood lifestyles. From the Showtime era’s remarkable rise to its tragic end—marked by Magic Johnson’s 1991 announcement that he had contracted HIV—Showtime is a gripping narrative of sports, celebrity, and 1980s-style excess.
Showtime in Cleveland
Title | Showtime in Cleveland PDF eBook |
Author | John Vacha |
Publisher | Kent State University Press |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780873386975 |
This work takes the reader from the city's first professional theatrical presentation in 1820, through the heyday of vaudeville, to the grand reopening of the newly renovated Allen Theatre in 1999 and the return of touring Broadway shows to Cleveland. In 1820 Cleveland was able to draw a visit from a troupe of professional actors. With no theater in which to perform, the troupe made do with Mowrey's Tavern on Public Square, where a standing-room-only audience saw The Purse; or the Benevolent Tar. It was five years before another professional company would visit. As the city grew, theater blossomed and vaudeville flourished. In the early 1920s, five magnificent theaters opened at Playhouse Square - the State and the Palace, for mixed programs of vaudeville and movies; the Hanna Theater and Ohio, for legitimate Broadway-style theater, and the Allen, for movies. Cleveland was also in the vanguard of the little theater movement with the establishment of the Cleveland Play House and the interracial Karamu Theatre. After a period of decline in the 1960s and 1970s, live theater was reborn in Playhouse Square, which is now the second-largest performing arts complex in the country, and a
Buzz Off!/Showtime!
Title | Buzz Off!/Showtime! PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Papademetriou |
Publisher | RH/Disney |
Pages | 37 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0736428410 |
While Bonnie is out, her toys try to fix Buzz Lightyear, who has been knocked into Repeat mode, and put on a talent show, although Buzz has trouble finding an act that is right for him.
It's Showtime!
Title | It's Showtime! PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Butterfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2014-06-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780985333829 |
Dance Divas: Showtime!
Title | Dance Divas: Showtime! PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 2013-09-10 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1619631814 |
Drama ensues for the Dancing Divas, a team of eight- to twelve-year-old girls who live to dance, as they rehearse in the studio and travel all around competing for titles.
The Little Dancers: Showtime!
Title | The Little Dancers: Showtime! PDF eBook |
Author | Maryann Macdonald |
Publisher | Imprint |
Pages | 17 |
Release | 2018-08-28 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1250220807 |
The little dancers are ready to shine on stage! Miss Amy’s ballet studio is putting on a dance performance called the Butterfly Ball. Rosa and her four friends rehearse leaping, balancing, and twirling to perfect their dances for the recital! But when Rosa's audition goes awry, she is cast in a disappointing role. Rosa feels like all her hard work was for nothing, until her friends help her discover her small part is of great importance. Rosa feels as beautiful as a butterfly . . . and maybe even more special! Illustrated by Belle & Boo creator Mandy Sutcliffe, The Little Dancers: Showtime! is a lovely picture book about friendship, self-esteem, and the magic of dance. An Imprint Book
My Fairy Showtime
Title | My Fairy Showtime PDF eBook |
Author | Maggie Bateson |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 12 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780230015821 |
"A magical pop-up world with press-out fairy pieces!"--Cover.